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[Buttle @ButtleUK]

🎓 Starting uni in 2026-27? @savethestudent bursary is back! Six awards of £750 are available for essentials like laptops and bedding. Apply by 26th June for your chance to get support: https://t.co/g3cwqxjCZa

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📢 Our comment on the Student Loan interest increase:

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⚠️ BREAKING: Student Loan interest rates will rise in September.

March's RPI (the figure used each year) has just come in at 4.1%, up from 3.2% in 2025.

Full list of changes, including how Plan 2's 6% cap will have a limited impact ⬇️

[Save the Student @SaveTheStudent]

❌ This won't affect your monthly repayments, which are always 9% (or 6% on Plan 3) of earnings over a threshold.

✅ But it does mean your student debt grows faster and makes it less likely you'll repay in full.

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Read the full report here 👇

https://t.co/4KqCKQSa2a

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🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨

Our National Student Accommodation Survey 2026 report is out today.

We look at the upcoming Renters' Rights Act, the student housing shortage, the impact of inadequate maintenance funding and more.

And we're calling on the government to take urgent action.

[Save the Student @SaveTheStudent]

@nickhillman @BBCr4today The suggestion from Chris Curtis that it may sometimes be better to take out a private loan was astonishing (not to mention unrealistic and dangerous).

There's a lot we'd like to change about Plan 2 (and 5), but so much of the discussion is so off the mark.

[Save the Student @SaveTheStudent]

This explains the interest rate THRESHOLDS that have been frozen (£28,470 – £51,245). https://t.co/2Y4nrhPqSI

The interest RATE is currently 3.2% + up to 3%, based on March 2025's RPI rate. The RPI rate in use will change in Sept 2026 to become March 2026's rate.

[Save the Student @SaveTheStudent]

We've seen this in a few places, but it's INCORRECT. ❌

The interest rate THRESHOLDS have been frozen as a natural knock-on of freezing the repayment threshold.

The interest RATE hasn't been frozen, and hasn't been 7.9% since July 2024.

cc @Telegraph

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

This seems to have been ignored - will have a big impact

[Save the Student @SaveTheStudent]

This is confirmed by the OBR report: https://t.co/D3VG7SSUpF (page 67)

Historic loan interest rates here: https://t.co/SCyPeAAxcB

[Save the Student @SaveTheStudent]

👇 Our take on yesterday's higher education white paper announcements, and why the increase to tuition fees shouldn't distract from the biggest financial challenge facing students.

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Read the report here: https://t.co/wTxQpWmabX

[Save the Student @SaveTheStudent]

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨

Today we publish the National Student Money Survey 2025 report.

Below-inflation increases to the Maintenance Loan continue to have an impact, as well as a drop in parental contributions.

We're calling on the government to increase funding to end this struggle.

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Read the full report here:

https://t.co/d8BqbjB1OY

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🚨 NEW REPORT

The results of our Student Banking Survey 2025 are now live, including:

🏦 Which banks students are using
🤔 How satisfied they are with their accounts
💷 Students' borrowing habits
🛒 Their use of buy now, pay later (BNPL) services

...and loads more 👇

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Full details, including the eligibility criteria and application form, here:

https://t.co/9u8VgkGNlV

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🚀 We've launched our first EVER bursary!

💷 We're giving away 6x £750 to students starting university in Autumn 2025, to help buy essentials like a laptop, bedding, specialist equipment and more.

🏠 Open to those with a household income of £40k/year or less.

Full details 👇

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